DeAlton Nichols, an 80-year-old Caucasian man, was murdered at his home in Roulette, Pennsylvania on November 18, 1973. He and his wife, Euphresia Nichols, were both repeatedly stabbed in the chest with a long knife. Their nephew, 36-year-old George Fitzsimmons, carried out the killings after telling authorities he believed his aunt and uncle were poisoning him with arsenic.

A confrontation escalated; Fitzsimmons grabbed a large hunting knife, stabbed DeAlton twice in the heart, then cornered and fatally stabbed Euphresia in the kitchen. He then drove to Buffalo, New York, and turned himself in. Fitzsimmons had prior mental health history cited in the case, including paranoid schizophrenia and amphetamine dependency, and a 1969 finding of insanity in the separate killings of his parents. He confessed on tape and was convicted and sentenced to life without parole.

Does anyone have memories of the Nichols family or details about how the community responded after November 18, 1973?